Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed an omnibus pension bill left ever from last session. (Went to President...
...Department returned $25,128,786 of its appropriations for the fiscal year 1924 to the Treasury, unspent. The savings: $23,000,000 in the Pension Bureau; $1,000,000 in the Reclamation Bureau; $500,000 in the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
...from the Department of the Interior, but not one additional power is granted it. The other functions of the new department are as heterogeneous as the sources from which they are drawn. In brief it proposes to take over the Public Health Service, the Veterans' Bureau, the Civil War Pension Bureau, and numerous other stray functions which have been unwanted step-children to the departments that have administered them...
...been stated here that King Fuad was educated in Italy, and is anxious to leave Egypt and get back to Europe when he has made sure of getting a good portion of his present income as a civil pension in his retirement, and that he speaks Turkish and Arabic with a foreign accent. It is true that the ruler of Egypt was educated in Italy; but it is untrue that he wishes to leave his throne and his people to return there. He has lived in Egypt for many years and speaks his native tongue like an Egyptian, and Turkish...
That the retirement (pension) system be improved...